Meeting minutes: September 12, 2017
  • Attendance: 13 members (Quorum)
  • Motion to accept meeting minutes from July 11, 2017 as corrected accepted unanimously
  • Motion to accept meeting minutes from August 08, 2017 as corrected accepted unanimously
  • New Members
    • Dennis Beck
    • Sheila Maithel
    • Nathan Grayston
  • Finances
    • James read a summary of July finances, noted he has not yet finished the finances for August.
    • We are break even! $+30/month
    • $6000 in the bank
  • Social events
    • 16-17 September 2017, Kilobots Canadian National Championship
    • 26 September 2017, Al - Maker Faire
    • 24 October 2017, need volunteer for presentation
    • 27-29 October 2017, Calgary Maker Faire
    • 28-29 October 2017, pet expo at Market Mall in old zellers building. Will be a table setup if anyone is interested.
    • Christmas Workshops
      • soap making
      • tree decorations
      • looking for volunteers
    • 18 November 2017, Leah lasering workshop for ornaments
    • Rylan offered to do a workshop on Kilns
      • Our neighbor, Michelle, wants to become a member and has a couple kilns in her garage that could come to techworks
      • Rylan is going to talk to the land lord to clear putting in provisions in the yard for having a kiln
  • Acknowledgements
    • Taylor for working dry-wall
    • Everyone who helped and came out to the summer social
    • Rylan for hte new table top and moving lathe
    • Scott for new chairs
    • James for doing an awesome job of the books
  • Equipment maintenance schedule
    • Laser cutter currently experiencing ghosting and reduced cutting performance
      • Been adjusted and is working good now
      • Reminder to raise the head when done with the machine so that the head doesn't collide with the table and make sure head will not impact material and weights
      • Also check the head before turning on the laser to make sure it is up
      • Couple things to check is feel the head, if it is warm the laser is out of alignment. Also check the chiller to make sure it is actually cooling
      • Ghosting is bad, if the cutter is ghosting discontinue use and contact to board to get the machine fixed.
    • laser cutters need flow sensors
    • Rylan says thank you to whoever returned his drill
  • New Business
    • Material Storage - Do not leave your stuff at the space (unless you have permission/renting space)
    • Suggestion to put a formal limit to allowance for leaving WIP projects at the space
    • Make sure to clean up material and the space in general after working on a project
    • James updated insurance to note we run workshops, so we are now covered on that front however address still needs to be updated
      • Insurance recommends waivers for workshops
  • Next Meeting - 10 October 2017
  • Material Policy
    • Purgatory Box
  • Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously
meeting/september_12_2017.txt · Last modified: 2017/09/13 02:04 by andrew
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